Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Interview with Renee Baribeau, Contributor to Pearls of Wisdom

An oyster can’t produce pearls without first suffering with a grain of sand. Each of the authors in Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to Lead Your Best Life Now gives guidance to readers on how to turn their own grains of sand into pearls.

Each chapter contains a new voice and a fresh idea for a positive life change. With each chapter as diverse as the cast of authors who have come together to create this unique book, there is certain to be an idea to inspire and uplift you.

Pearls of Wisdom contains the greatest ideas of today’s top self-help authors, combining traditional and new techniques, affirmations, theories, meditations and practices to lead readers from the struggles they deal with in their current situations to a higher, enlightened life; not merely an existence.

For anyone who has asked the question;

“am I really living the best possible life I could be?”

Pearls of Wisdom grants the answers for any of life’s questions, straight from the hearts and minds of the masters of self-help themselves.

Renee Baribeau is a mentor, healer, coach, teacher, and writer. Over the past fifteen years, she has trained with a long list of traditional shamans and modern-day mystics. She has received rites of passage from Q’ero elders in Peru and a Mapuche shaman in Chile, and apprenticed with a Lakota elder in Southern California for nine years. A graduate of the Healing the Light Body two-year program with the Four Winds Society, she then studied directly with Jose Luis Herrera. She has also received the healer’s blessing from Swami Kaleshwar.

How did you get into this collection of inspiration with folks like Jack Canfield?

In 2010, my healing memoir, The Shaman Chef: How cooking saved my life scheduled for publication in autumn 2013, placed me among the top 25 finalists in The Next Top Spiritual Author competition, emerging from a field of over 2,500 candidates from around the world. I was asked to submit my chapter by the publisher.

What is your chapter about?

Creativity; a recipe for Awakening is about combining leftovers with new fresh ingredients to restore passion in one's life.

What do you think makes this book unique and who would want to read it?

It is an anthology featuring the new voices of the Awakening Movement.

What kind of wisdom do you have to offer the reader?

I have walked through the fire and my experience can shave off years of hard work as evidenced in the work I do with clients. Do not burn your feet, but read these pearls.

The publisher promises that the authors such as yourself are “up and coming” leaders in self-help. How does the publisher know this and what is your expertise in “self-help”?

In 2010, my healing memoir, The Shaman Chef: How cooking saved my life, placed me among the top 25 finalists in The Next Top Spiritual Author competition, emerging from a field of over 2,500 candidates from around the world.

Most people know about Jack Canfield from the Chicken Soup books and Marci Shimoff from her Happy book … How would you like your readers to think of you? What is your “signature niche”?

The Practical Shaman; a no-nonsense down to earth practitioner who shifts and awakens consciousness.

We often hear that the “whole is greater than the sum of its parts” – how does that proverb apply to the 30 authors in this book?